Part 135 software thatcovers the whole certificate.
By appointment, on a guided demo operation
Dispatch, duty, crew, maintenance, manifests, SMS records, and billing for Part 135 charter, management, and owner-flight operators running 1–50+ aircraft.
A Part 135 certificate runs on records. The software has to keep all of them.
Duty logs, releases, manifests, currencies, inspections, manuals, safety reports, invoices. Run them in separate tools and the same trip gets typed in four times. Contrails keeps every one of them on the same record.
Duty & rest — FAR 135.267
Duty and flight-time limits enforced as configured for your ops specs, with automatic padding and hard blocks at dispatch.
Go deeperDispatch & releases
Weather, route, NOTAMs, weight and balance, and signatures on every release — archived as flown.
Go deeperLoad manifests — 135.63
Manifest data captured at release and frozen at trip close, exportable when the FAA asks.
Crew currencies
Medicals, checkrides, type ratings, and recurrent training on one timeline, checked before release.
Maintenance & MELs
Hours, cycles, calendar inspections, squawks, and work orders — with dispatch blocks when an aircraft is out of limits.
SMS records — 14 CFR Part 5
Hazard reports, risk assessments, and safety communications with the records the mandate requires.
Go deeperControlled documents
Manuals and OpSpecs distributed by role, acknowledged per person, annotated per user, cached offline on the iPad.
Quoting & billing
Quotes with a signed-link customer portal, FET handled correctly, invoices that match the dispatch log, owner statements for managed fleets.
Go deeperThe trip, the duty day, the squawk, and the invoice live on one record.
Moving from another system isn’t starting over.
We do our best to transfer your data from your previous management software free of charge — customers, aircraft, crew records, trip history — so day one in Contrails looks like your operation, not an empty database.
What does Part 135 software need to cover?
The certificate's whole paper trail: duty and rest under FAR 135.267, dispatch releases with weather and NOTAMs, load manifests under 135.63, crew currencies and checkrides, maintenance and MEL tracking, controlled manuals, SMS records under 14 CFR Part 5, and the billing side — quotes, invoices, and owner statements. Contrails keeps all of it on one record.
Can Contrails replace our spreadsheets and separate dispatch tool?
That is the point of it. The same trip record carries the quote, the release, the legs, the duty entries, the squawks, and the invoice, so nothing is retyped between systems. Accounting syncs two-way with your accounting system.
Who hosts it, and who owns the data?
We host and manage every instance — one isolated tenant per operation. The data is yours and exportable at any time.
We already have years of data in another system. Do we start from zero?
No. We do our best to transfer your data from your previous management software free of charge — customers, aircraft, crew records, and trip history — so Contrails starts with your past operation already in it.
Does it work for managed and owner-flown aircraft, not just charter?
Yes. Contrails is configured per aircraft, so charter, managed, and owner-flown airplanes live on the same certificate with different billing rules, cost flows, and owner visibility — including owner statements.
How do we evaluate it?
Demos are by appointment: forty-five minutes, screen share, on a guided demo operation. We walk a real trip end to end — quote, release, invoice — and map it to how you fly.
See the whole certificate on one screen.
A guided demo operation, walked end to end — quote, trip, release, invoice — and mapped to how you fly.
Contrails is hosted and managed by Nightingale Skies — your data, exportable any time